Several issues need dose of common sense

By Darrell L. Gibson

Published: Monday, January 13, 2014 at 04:38 PM.

To the editor:

Coming back from his vacation to Hawaii, the president wants to extend unemployment insurance again. We do not need unemployment insurance benefits extended beyond 26 weeks. If you can’t find a job in six months, then you aren’t looking for one. If we truly have that kind of money lying around, then give it to our teachers, police officers, firemen and children for free meals in school.

There are other issues I have yet to see addressed:

nWhat happened to the “line drawn in the sand” in Iran?

nWhere are we on immigration reform? I hope and pray on this one that we recognize illegals — as that is what they are — and just send them back to where they came from.

nShould the U.S. go to the Olympics, which I feel are unsafe for these great athletes?

nIf the Catholic Church and the federal government can pick and choose what part of Obama-care they want to follow, then why can’t the rest of us?

Coming back from his vacation to Hawaii, the president wants to extend unemployment insurance again. We do not need unemployment insurance benefits extended beyond 26 weeks. If you can’t find a job in six months, then you aren’t looking for one. If we truly have that kind of money lying around, then give it to our teachers, police officers, firemen and children for free meals in school.

There are other issues I have yet to see addressed:

nWhat happened to the “line drawn in the sand” in Iran?

nWhere are we on immigration reform? I hope and pray on this one that we recognize illegals — as that is what they are — and just send them back to where they came from.

nShould the U.S. go to the Olympics, which I feel are unsafe for these great athletes?

nIf the Catholic Church and the federal government can pick and choose what part of Obama-care they want to follow, then why can’t the rest of us?